BOLIVIA

Copenhagen, 14 December 2009 - As President Obama announced that major states had reached a deal in Copenhagen, Bolivia's ambassador to the UN,
Pablo Solon angrily denounced the released text of the agreement:
“This is completely unacceptable. How can it be that 25 to 30 nations
cook up an agreement that excludes the majority of more than 190
nations. We have been negotiating for months on one of the gravest
crises of our age, and yet our voice counts for nothing? If this is how
world agreements will now be agreed, then it makes a nonsense of the UN
and multilateralism.”
Pablo Solon also condemned the substance of the agreement:
“The agreement talks of setting targets that limit warming to 2 degrees.
The leaders of the rich countries should come to Bolivia to see what
global warming is already doing to our country. We have droughts,
disappearing glaciers and water shortages. Imagine this scaled up three
times. We cannot accept an agreement that condemns half of humanity”